Invited by the City of Los Angeles to participate in its Accessory Dwelling Unit Standard Plan Program, wHY Los Angeles delivered two basic solutions. One’s a one-bedroom, 500-square-foot unit. The other’s an 800-square-foot, two bedroom unit. Both can be pre-manufactured and lowered into a homeowner’s...
Susurros del Corazón is a residential development that overlooks Mexico’s Bay of Banderas, between Puerto Vallarta and the surfer town of Sayulita. There, at Punta de Mita, developer Mark Cooley is putting the finishing touches on a series of villas and condos that cascade down a six-degree slope...
The state of Texas may be opening back up on March 10, but Austin‘s 13th annual Modern Architecture + Design Tour this weekend will be a virtual affair. Eight homes – four on Saturday and four on Sunday – will be available for viewing worldwide. “With a virtual tour, we meet every tour-goer...
Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return to Seattle, where promising projects followed. She’d already interned at Olson Kundig there, with favorable results. “Tom...
Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For good reason. “There’s a pretty clear narrative out of the office and my career – that everything comes from the residential footing,” he says. “We look at residential work as the soul of our architecture.”...
Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset of going to a showroom, picking up a brochure, and making decisions,” the co-founder of FORM Kitchens says. “It...
The Czech Center in New York has put together a three-part program on Adolf Loos’s rarely seen (and previously unseen) interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic. It’s ongoing now, and open through March 11. Details on dates and times can be found at the end of this post. A world-renowned architect, Loos...
Australia-based Landini Associates was founded in 1993, with work that melds strategy, architecture, interior, graphic, product, furniture and digital design. Its clients span all sectors of retail and hospitality — from global brands like ALDI, Hilton Hotels, and McDonald’s to lifestyle brands...
Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book that explores the relationship between artists and their environments. Writer Melissa Wyse and illustrator...
A 1987 painting by Robert Overby ignited the imaginations of Jessica Shaw and the client who showed it to her. It’s called “Computer Whiz” and it hangs in TriBeca’s Andrew Kreps Gallery. And Shaw’s design for an eighth-floor, five- bedroom apartment at 81st and Broadway, in a building by Robert...
